Leaves me with 126,200 in the bank. Team below, am I missing something? I’ll also say be harsh. Other issues are, like most people, Goodes and Cripps. Not sure I should just hold them though, or at least wait for someone better to trade them for.

I love Supercoach, I don’t have GAJ. My week will be easier than most. He will bounce back, He needs to have confidence in that injured shoulder, I love watching AFL and and would much rather see a fully fit Ablett…

No room for sentiment in this game. Ablett and Malceski have to go. If I trade GAJ for Bonts and Esky for McDonald, I’ll have coin to trade Cripps to Sloane next week. Will then have 7 midfield keepers with Gray and Dusty already forward.

I would really like to bring in Rich. I see him as being a keeper for the season. I have 35k in the bank.

Option 1 – GAJ to Shiel, Slone or Kennedy & Cripps to Rich

Option 2 – Hibbert to Mcdonald & Cripps to Rich

Option 3 No Rich – GAJ to Shiel & Goodes to Smith

Trading GAJ goes against everything I believe in but seeing his Highlights he can break tackles or make them. GCS look terrible atm as well. I know I can buy him back closer to 600k later down the track if need be.

What are peoples thoughts on Shiel? Flash in the pan or legit? I havent seen any GWS games to decide.

Option 1 or 3. I pulled the trigger on Cripps to Rich last week – good move so far. Wait a week on the Goodes to Smith for me.
Interested in Shiel myself & will research more this week. JPK is some player mind – ultra reliable, with proven premium record (only knock on Shiel, but he is only 22) & with Hanners, Jack et al to take the tag he’s going to go nuts a few times. Sloan is great, but that compression bandage on his leg & being in doubt for pies game is a worry even though he played well. Saying, that Sloan due to sign new contract within a month so will not have outside media / street pressure of Danger – could be good POD & still has easy run.

Gaz has to go. He looks like he is a long way off having any confidence in his shoulder and will bleed cash. I think it will be worth the trades/points to trade him out now and back later if he comes good. Well done to those who started without him, you are already winning. Had the bont’s in pre season but swapped him to TBC for ruck cover which im regretting but could still pay off.
Without having a good look at it yet I’m thinking gaz to bont’s with the intention of moving him forward and possibly Cripps to NVB as a corrective rookie trade.
Goodes is another issue but he can wait. This will leave me with pots O cash for an upgrade. Need to have a good look at break evens this week

To Bont or not to Bont..
Do we think he will be top 10 fwd this year?
I will either go Ablett to Sloane/Bont
Frees me up to get in B.Smith for Newnes
Just a matter of the extra 200k with bont which I could use to pick up a fallen premo mid once the cows are plump
Thoughts?

2 trades for me this week.
GAJ – Sloane is a lock
Second trade I am looking at 2 options.
Newton – Rich or
Steven – Bont
I’m leaning more towards the Newton – Rich trade as I’m not sure if Bonts will keep up his consistency and I still think Steven will average 100.
Thoughts?

Have $380K in bank due mainly to a light Backline and tossing up, like many, what to do with Gaz.

Anderson to NVB – think Anderson could be dropped in favor of Billy Hartung coming in ($70K)

Gaz to Rich – leaves me with $680K.

Goodes & Clancee on the block for the coming weeks if don’t improve/avoid the vest. Targets will be Smith (last minute drop for pre season team), Rance. T.McD interesting but don’t think he’ll keep scoring at current rate.

Vanilla trades for me this week.
Ablett –> Sloane
Goodes –> Doc
After stuffing up this week (forgot that trades were not reversible after the first game) I’m hoping these will be the last ones before upgrading.

I don’t have the Gaz conundrum. I went against the great man at the start of the season. I have a Beams conundrum though, I didn’t see the game but I gotta assume he’s taken Rockliffs tag. I’m also questioning a few of my defenders. I’ve got:
Mids: Fyfe, pend, neale, beams, Griffen, CEY, heeny on field. (Vanders, miller, smith)
Def: shaw, lumumba, newnes, hibberd, Macintosh, saad down back.

Is it worth dumping beams and one of my weaker defenders to bring in Bonts, Rance or someone I can rely on for 100+ Scores? Or stick fat with my current crop?

Only considering 1 trade this week…Cripps out – NVB in, more upside to NVB with a few weak fixtures with Melbourne and Doggies coming up for Adelaide and then the local derby…

Have Parker in my Mids as well, but thinking of holding him – two games 30+ disposals (concussion effected score on the weekend). Low scores so far in the first 2 rounds, so will drop in value – but could go big against GWS this week – my instincts say hold!?!

Didn’t see any games on the WE but assuming you guys are all correct and Gaz can’t tackle and shake tackles, so I think JPK or Sloane to replace him. My other trade will be forced I believe as it looks like my DPP experiment with Simon White and Missy is only working at one end of the ground to injury. The obvious swap there is to Bonts.

PLEASE HELP ME ON THIS ONE, Im sure most of us are faced with the Gaz conundrum…
What would you do with this team? Trying to climb the overall ranks (currently 27,000ish)

Which of the 2 following do I focus on?
1. trade out Gaz to a top Premo Mid/Fwd (I like Shiel, Sloane, JPK, Treloar, Jack, Buddy, Pavlich)
2. bring in cashcows NVB or VDBerg for Cripps (I have all of the cheap Cashcows bar these 2, and I view Shiels, Docherty and McDonald as $50,000 cashcows next week anyways…..)
3. upgrade Goodes to Savage/McDonald/Doc in the backline
4. bring in Goldstein in the ruck

But then:
Van Berlo in for Cripps/Sheed
Or
Hogan in for Clark/Lonie/McGrath
Or hold the second trade?

I have all the other top rookies. I’m not sure on the second trade as all of those players are currently looking to make a little cash – but I wanna get rich quick, so happy to use a trade here early.
(Annoyed as I had both these guys and the preseason talked me out of them)

Total score 4418, and total rank 1,115 so going for overall at this early stage like the other wannabes. Bearing that in mind, and only having $37K in the bank, I want to bring in D Rich and one of Rance or McDonald (def). Rich has burnt me in previous years – will this finally be his year?

Thinking about doing something from left-field and holding Leuey (along side Goldstein) and trading out Ryder instead to inject some cash (and I don’t see his value going up at any stage). Leuey can’t do any worse than he did on the weekend right?

Also need to trade out Cripps (if bringing in McDonald) or Goodes (if bringing in Rance). At this stage leaning towards Rance instead of McDonald, given Melbourne are playing Adelaide next week and Richmond have relatively softer draws. Leaves $1K in the bank. The pros for bringing in McDonald however are that it frees up more cash and obviously his value will skyrocket comparative to Rance.

Does anyone know how long Cripps will be out for with his back? It seems like lots of people are jumping off the Cripps Ship already. I picked him at the start of the season on the view that he would be Carlton’s competitive ball beast. I know he had a bad first week, but so did the likes of Selwood, Dusty etc. Are people trading because of injury or lack of confidence in his ability to generate some high scores during the season?

I’d be very surprised if Bruce has a better game this season HH. Did a great job on the weekend, but I am thinking he could be fools gold. I think he will float in and out of games. One thing I always look for in SC is consistency and I don’t think Bruce will have that.

I’m not sure on many of my trades this week thinking of correcting touk miller not sure who to thinking van Berlo (already got CEY, Vsndenberg, Heeney )
Other trade I could do is correcting maybe ahmad saad otherwise pretty happy with the side unless a underperformung premo mid

thinking gaz to lewis.
then goodes to who? what’s the thoughts on Savage- two tons in a row looks like he’s pretty involved in St kilda set up, at $370k he seems like he could be a really good option. only 1.3 % of teams own him as well- thoughts?

Would love advice!
Made two corrective trades after horrible round 1. It did pay off but now
am wondering if it’s worth making another one this week?
Boak to Lewis? Thoughts?
Boak bleeding points for his value

Hey guys traded beams to Shiel and Cripps to NVB thoughts ? Also first year supercoach and am wondering what happens when the value of the players go up , do we get the money in our bank to upgrade players , can someone please explain ? Also why is everyone trading B goodes now , not going to lose much money ? Thanks

Alright, here’s my take on the biggest Fantasy question confronting coaches this week – to Bont or not to Bont? First of all, let me ask a rhetorical question; which current player most reminds you of the Bont? No takers……………………oh, that’s right, it’s a one way forum. Let me help, anyone familiar with

NATHAN FYFE

That’s right, the Knife himself. Let’s take a look at the obvious similarities:

– both very tall midfielders (Bont is actually 5cm bigger than Nat) that can compete overhead with KPPs;
– both love the contest and are not afraid of winning their own pill;
– both have elite agility and timing around the stoppages demonstrating their natural ability to read the play;
– both love to hit the scoreboard.

In summary, both have every element that supports the CD scoring system. Enough of the subjective assessment, let’s look at the facts. These are the stats for both players:

What do people think of ahmad Saad (st Kilda) scored 75 in a saints win but how many games will the saints win this year? Not many my guess
I started with him and wondering if a corrective trade is need
Already got Hogan, Salem, Clark and McGrath

Not sure what to do this week… the idea of bringing in Bonts or Rance is enticing but not sure how it could be done. the glaring omission on the team is the lack of Vandenberg to bring in some cash and Goodes is an issue before the price drop! Ideas???

I don’t like cutting Jong, but NVB is shaping as a far better cash cow and I think Lin is going to be playing a tagging role in the next few games for the Dogs. Plus I need the cash to get the Bont in. Leaves me with 40K in the bank.
Mind you, if Cripps gets left out again this week, I’ll be re-evaluating (again).

Probably doing the gaz to Bont’s trade as I see him a being a forward line keeper.
Second trade I’m not sure on.
H Goddard to Oxley or
Cripps/ miller to NVB.
Any opinions on who out of NVB and Oxley is a bigger priority this week?

Thinking Ablett to Wallis and Cockatoo – Swan. Leaves some cash for future upgrades but doesn’t get me the Bont. Thinking Wallis can play the Libba role this year and average around 100. Would see him rise to near $500,000 to hopefully jump to a Selwood/Beams type. Everyone on the Bont so kind of want to get a POD in there. Just get the Bont?

Should always stick with you gut feelings. Didn’t touch my team for 3 days prior to the start of the round and ended up making 2 decisions throughout the rolling lockouts.
1. Went Pendles to Gazza
2. Changed Anderson to Cockatoo when Cocky was named as Sub in Rd1 and Anderson was named on field.

Would probably be making other changes but further behind the 8 ball than I would have been. Nonetheless, this week:
Gazza -> Bont/JPK/Sloane
Cocky -> NVB

Want to go Goodes to Oxley. Then it comes down to chasing after Bont or getting NVB. Cripps or Wells would be the options to go. Doggies have a tough few weeks so thinking Bont won’t me given the same opportunities against the better teams. Wells may not make his BE but he scored 63 and was subbed at the half last week. Also have Nath Brown plodding along down back to consider.

Almost feels like a sideways trade Roo. Goodes and Cripps could well come good in a couple of weeks. Mind you i have traded Goodes as well to Rance (most likely). Also not sold on Oxley after one game when the game was played in the Magpie defense for the most part.

G.Ablett to J.Kennedy is a definite for me this week.
My other options are:
B.Goodes > B.Smith
P.Cripps > N.van Berlo
K.Lambert > N.van Berlo
Thoughts on these potential trades? I still also have T.Lamb in the FWD bench, but he could come in handy for a loophole.

Thinking Ablett – Sloane as Trade 1, last year I went to Sloane from Ablett after he busted his shoulder against the Pies, and it proved to be great in the long run. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it! Plus the Crows upcoming draw looks appealing.

Trade 2 will probably be Cripps out for NVB (only if Cripps doesn’t get up to play this Round). If Cripps does play, then most likely Lambert – NVB then.